[Survival time and causes of death in dialysis patients].

Renal dialysis was performed, between 1973 and 1983, in 431 patients in terminal renal failure. Of these, 223 (51.7%) are still in treatment, 21 (4.

Pharmacokinetics of azathioprine under haemodialysis.

Due to the retarded elimination of azathioprine and its metabolites immunosuppressive therapy creates certain problems during acute or chronic renal failure. For this reason the pharmacokinetics of azathioprine and its metabolites were studied in patients with chronic renal failure. Elimination during eight hours of haemodialysis amounted to 45%, which is only slightly less than the elimination in the urine of normal persons over a period of 24 hours.